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ENS

Definition: ENS

ENS

Noun

1. Something supposed to condense within itself all the virtues and qualities of a substance from which it is extracted; essence.

2. Entity, being, or existence; an actually existing being; also, God, as the Being of Beings.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "ENS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1628. (references)

Etymology: Ens \Ens\, noun. [Latin expression, ens, entis, thing. See Entity.]. (references)


Abbreviations & Acronyms: ENS

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

ENS

DanishDet europaeiske NationalregnskabssystemEconomics

ENS

EnglishEnterprise Network ServicesN/A
ENS 1995DanishDet europæiske nationalregnskabssystem 1995European Union, Economics
ENSIQEnglishENS - Information Query, "ENS IQ"Computer - (Banyan, VINES, ENS)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms within Context: ENS

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Deity

God, Lord, Jehovah, Jahweh, Allah; The Almighty, The Supreme Being, The First Cause, the Prime Mover; Ens Entium; Author of all things, Creator of all things; Author of our being; Cosmoplast; El; The Infinite, The Eternal; The All-powerful, The All-wise, The All-merciful, The All-holy.

Existence

Phrase: ens rationis; ergo sum cogito: "thinkest thou existence doth depend on time?".

Noun: existence, being,Noun: existence, being, entity, ens, esse, subsistence.

Inexistence

Phrase: non ens.

Intellect

Phrase: ens rationis; frons est animi janua; locos y ninos dicen la verdad; mens sola loco non exulat; " my mind is my kingdom "; " stern men with empires in their brains "; " the mind, the music breathing from her face "; " thou living ray of intellectual Fire ".

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: ENS

Etymologies containing "ENS": Entity. (references)
Non-English Usage: "ENS" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Catalan (we), Swedish (even, in line with each other, your).

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Commercial Usage: ENS

DomainTitle

Books

  • Diar wiar ens en ual wöfke : en ual fresk teel, apskrewen för a fering-öömrang jongen (reference)

  • Emerging Opportunities in Peripheral Neuropathy: Ens Satellite Symposium, Nice, June 8, 1998 (reference)

  • Ens inquantum ens : der Begriff des Seienden als solchen als Gegenstand der Metaphysik nach der Lehre des Johannes Duns Scotus (reference)

  • Fussell Exercises for ENS Drill (reference)

  • Inventari d'ens locals : dels seus ens dependents i d'altres ens públics associatius (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: ENS

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

"De-Briefing Session -- After returning from strikes on enemy targets in the Wonsan area, these three Navy pilots on the aircraft carrier USS Antietam go into a de-briefing session, and check themselves on targets hit and damaged. Left to right: Ens. Robert L. Thomas, ... Lt(jg) Robert F. Baker ... and Ens. Howard E. Foabn." (last name given is unclear) Photograph and caption were released by Commander Naval Forces, Far East, under date of 12 January 1952. Note pilots' flight suits and life vests with attached survival equipment. Credit: NAVY.

Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service. Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, becomes the home for WAVES in training. Here, midshipmen take on heavy schedule to learn the duties of an officer in the U.S. Naval Reserve. Officers on parade. Ens. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: ENS

SubjectTopicQuote

Worker Rights

Colombia

According to the ENS, a total of 184 union activists were killed during the year. (references)

Colombia

The ENS also reported that 23 unionists survived attempts on their lives, 203 were threatened with death, 37 were kidnaped, 12 disappeared, and 56 were forcibly displaced. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: ENS

"ENS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 88.89% of the time. "ENS" is used about 27 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)88.89%2471,196
Noun (proper)11.11%3202,518
                    Total100.00%27N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: ENS

Expressions using "ENS": ens rationis non ens. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "ENS": non-ens.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ENS

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

ens

88

cachan ens

14

ens lexus toyota

7

ens toyota

6

ens lyon

5

ens karl porcelain

4

ens ulm

4

ens karl

3

ens msp opsandinfra.ch.etn.com

3

ens lyon.fr

3

ens news.com

3

0246b compuhq enhance ens justdeals mint non pulled rebuilt refurb refurbished remanufactured

3

compaq ens

3

ens land

3

de del ens logotipo morelos

3

ens mag.com

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: ENS

Language Translations for "ENS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

nature d'une maladie (ens morbi). (various references)

   

German

  

Ens morbi (ens morbi). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ensay.(various references)

   

Thai

  

การมีตัวตน (ทางปรัชญาป. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

varolma (corporeity, entia), soyut varlık kavramı. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: ENS

Derivations

Words beginning with "ENS": ensample, ensamples, ensanguine, ensanguined, ensanguines, ensanguining, ensconce, ensconced, ensconces, ensconcing, enscroll, enscrolled, enscrolling, enscrolls, ensemble, ensembles, enserf, enserfed, enserfing, enserfment, enserfments, enserfs, ensheath, ensheathe, ensheathed, ensheathes, ensheathing, ensheaths, enshrine, enshrined, enshrinee, enshrinees, enshrinement, enshrinements, enshrines, enshrining, enshroud, enshrouded, enshrouding, enshrouds, ensiform, ensign, ensigncies, ensigncy, ensigns, ensilage, ensilaged, ensilages, ensilaging, ensile, ensiled. (additional references)

Words ending with "ENS": abdomens, abducens, acetaminophens, acrogens, acumens, agglutinogens, agnomens, albumens, aliens, allergens, alloantigens, amens, amidogens, amylogens, androgens, anticarcinogens, antiestrogens, antigens, arpens, aspens, avens, awakens, baleens, barrens, battens, bedarkens, bedeafens, bedizens, bemaddens, bens, bescreens, betokens, biogens, bitumens, blackens, boreens, brackens, brazens, breakevens, brens, brightens, broadens, buckeens, bullpens, burdens, burthens, canteens, carageens, carcinogens, careens, carrageens. (additional references)

Words containing "ENS": alpenstock, alpenstocks, amanuenses, amanuensis, anenst, angiotensin, angiotensins, anticensorship, antihypertensive, antihypertensives, antisense, apprehensible, apprehensibly, apprehension, apprehensions, apprehensive, apprehensively, apprehensiveness, apprehensivenesses, ascension, ascensional, ascensions, ascensive, avenses, bimensal, biosensor, biosensors, burdensome, cense, censed, censer, censers, censes, censing, censor, censored, censorial, censoring, censorious, censoriously, censoriousness, censoriousnesses, censors, censorship, censorships, censual, censurable, censure, censured, censurer, censurers. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: ENS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: sen.

Words within the letters "e-n-s"

-1 letter: en, es, ne.

 Words containing the letters "e-n-s"
 

+1 letter: anes, bens, dens, ends, engs, eons, erns, fens, gens, hens, kens, lens, nebs, ness, nest, nets, news, noes, nose, ones, pens, sane, seen, send, sene, sent, sewn, sine, sned, snye, sone, syne, tens, wens, yens.

 

+2 letters: acnes, aeons, amens, anise, ansae, antes, ashen, aspen, avens, banes, beans, bends, benes, bents, bines, bones, brens, canes, cense, cents, cines, cones, deans, denes, dense, dents, dines, dunes, dynes, earns, ebons, elans, enols, enows, ensky, ensue, eosin, ernes, etnas, evens, exons, fanes, fends, ferns, fines, genes, gents, genus, glens, hanse, hents, herns, hones, hosen, inset, janes, jeans, jones, kanes, keens, kenos, kerns, kines, knees, lanes, leans, lends, lenes, lenis, lenos, lense, liens, lines, lunes, manes, manse, means, mends, mensa, mense, menus, mesne, meson, miens, mines, nabes, names, napes, nares, nates, naves, neaps, nears, neats, necks, needs, neems, neeps, negus, neifs, neist, nemas, nenes, neons, nerds, nerts, nests, netts, neuks, neums, neves, nevus, newsy, newts, nexus, nides, nines, nisei, nites, nixes, nodes, noels, noise, nomes, nones, noose, nosed, noses, nosey, notes, nudes, nukes, nurse, omens, onces, onset, opens, ovens, owsen, panes, peans, peens, peins, pends, penes, penis, peons, pines, pones, reins, rends, rents, resin, rinse, risen, runes, saned, saner, sanes, scena, scend, scene, scent, scone, sedan, segni, segno, seine, semen, sends, sengi, senna, senor, sensa, sense, sente, senti, serin, seton, seven, sewan, sheen, shend, shent, shewn, shine, shone, since, sines, sinew, singe, siren, skean, skeen, skein, skene, snake, snare, sneak, sneap, sneck, sneds, sneer, snell, snide, snipe, snore, snyes, sonde, sones, spean, spend, spent, spine, stane, stein, steno, stern, stone, swine, syren, teens, tends, tense, tents, terns, thens, tines, tones, tunes, tynes, unset, unsew, unsex, usnea, vanes, veins, vends, vents, vines, wanes, weans, weens, wends, whens, wines, wrens, yeans, zeins, zones.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Abbreviations
11. Acronyms
12. Derivations
13. Anagrams
14. Bibliography


  

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